San Francisco Cantonese

Language Log 2024-04-02

Summary:

From Charles Belov: While riding the 22 Fillmore bus through the Mission District in San Francisco today, I overheard a conversation in Cantonese. It was nearly 100% in Cantonese, not the Cantlish* that I rarely also hear. What surprised me, though, was when one of the elderly speakers said "Hong Kong" they used the English […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=63311&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=san-francisco-cantonese

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Tags:

borrowing

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

04/02/2024, 22:03

Date published:

04/02/2024, 21:17